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REVs have been exiled from Earth, with the remaining few treated like criminals and required to wear armbands and tattoos, harkening back to another tragic time in the history of mankind. Zac Murphy and his REVs now live on the planet Crious, building a new homeworld of their own . . . if the humans will leave them alone. But now the evil Seken race is heading for Earth, determined to destroy the planet as part of their black-and-white practice of war. Either you destroy them, or they will destroy you. There is no compromise, no surrender, no negotiated peace. 

Admiral Jack Mattis thinks Spectre, humanity's nemesis, has been defeated. And he sacrificed the USS Midway, to do it. Now a US Navy pilot has gone missing. A terrorist group kidnaps a dozen infants. Admiral Mattis's own infant grandson is suddenly and mysteriously ill with a sickness no doctor can--or will--diagnose. No one can piece the puzzle together, until from a derelict future-human ship Mattis finally recovers an actual mutant human, come from the future to destroy Spectre himself.

For three years, Rixon Caldwell has been the most lethal gamer online. He is undefeated in international play, and his stream is viewed by millions of avid fans each and every day. When an unsigned email arrives inviting him to beta test the newest, most immersive MMO ever, Circuit World, he discounts the offer out of hand. For him, offers like this one are a daily event. He’s a brand, and charity is not his default setting. When he moves to delete the email, his laptop screen vanishes, replaced with a simple question: Do you accept our challenge?

Quentin needs to put it all behind him, enough of the pity brigade. What better way to do just that than by jumping into Sorrowsong, the greatest MMO that ever existed, that's now available in true VR? But there’s always a catch, or more like a big flaw, unless you consider a mind-reading quest-giver to be a minor glitch. Now the QG is in his head, rooting up memories that are best left buried. The game is playing Quentin.

Meet Zane Shields - A high-schooler with a fiery passion for combat, who turns even ordinary battles into epic showdowns! He dreams of glorious battles, but this mundane world cannot satisfy his passion for fighting. Unbeknownst to Zane, it's the last day of the world. A nuclear bomb-wielding Instagram-star-turned-dictator has accidentally deployed missiles across the globe. Just as the world faces imminent destruction, Zane is whisked away by a swirling light that asks one simple question. What kind of life do you desire?

The world is a place of magic and wonder as nations struggle against monsters and nature itself to expand into the wilderness. The world is an unfair place where happenstance and the circumstances of your birth can bind you to a life of suffering, servitude, and drudgery. Both are true for Kaff Aderlai, a talented magic user learning to harness his talents at the Virras Military Academy.

His son is dead. His ship is dead. His career is dead. But Spectre is very much alive. And with his plans of galactic domination laid bare, Captain James Mattis must gather what allies he can to stop him. Admiral Pippa Spears and the HMS Caernarvon make a mysterious discovery in the wreckage of the USS Stennis, one that could change the outcome of the war.

With nowhere else to go and separated from their friends, Avery and Clesandra head into the dark mist with Commander Smith hot on their trail. Endless are the rumors about the mist, what lies within it, and its shrouded secrets. Avery cannot worry about those rumors. Other problems plague his mind. Where is Jace? Is he safe? Where are the others? How will they find them without getting lost themselves? Will he and Clesandra live long enough to see their child born?

Kaeden is a nomad who lives life on his own terms. He prefers the unbounded steppe over a cramped city, and allegiance to the sword over fealty to a king. When he does make the occasional foray into civilization, it is to procure cold mead, a hot bath, and a good woman. The latter preferably for an hour or less. Life is great, until his wanderings bring him to a forest inhabited by nightmares. There, trapped beneath those lightless eaves, he is forced to ally with a mysterious woman whose cunning and beauty could prove to be his downfall.

Arch Enemy delivers pulse-pounding action, strategic battles, and a maze of alliances. As the line between hero and villain blurs, Maelstrom's path navigates treachery and shifting loyalties. Will he emerge as Adventure City's savior or downfall? Prepare for a suspenseful journey through power, loyalty, and the unyielding spirit of a supervillain turned leader.

Maelstrom's victory over the Winter League is short-lived. Disastrophe, the original supervillain from Capes Online's beta era, rises to power with a sinister agenda: To escape the virtual world by seizing Maelstrom's real-life body, even if it means his death. With Adventure City at stake, Maelstrom forges unlikely alliances with heroes and villains alike to thwart Disastrophe's deadly plan for him and the city as a whole.

Humanity is desperate to find a way to quickly end this catastrophic war before the aliens can overwhelm them with sheer numbers.

A race of feline aliens have discovered a new source of prey. Unfortunately, humanity is distracted as a sentient bio-computer is orchestrating an interstellar civil war. Neither side is yet aware that they have been detected by a star-faring race of predators, who are already making preparations to unleash humanity's greatest nightmare: alien invaders.

Financial advisor Alan Haft helps his clients reach their financial goals and increase their standard of living. Now, in You Can Never Be Too Rich, Haft uses his vast knowledge base, highly innovative investment concepts, and entertaining style of writing to create proven investment solutions that will help listeners minimize risk and take advantage of opportunities that lead to financial security for a lifetime. Haft walks listeners through the process of building and protecting wealth - and reveals the financial secrets that most investment professionals aren't aware of.

Today’s high schools aren’t about books. They’re about texts, tweets, and social media postings…silly, gossip, and sometimes mean, until the random murder of a well-liked high school teacher. But is it random? Vinnie Briggs can’t find any explanation…except he notices links to other accidents among teachers, principals, and high school parents. He recruits a martial arts expert, Rita Light, to help the investigation. Vinnie seeks hard evidence; Rita her invented inventive yoga sex among the widowers. It works, except she falls in love with one of the parents.

A chance meeting of a former high school best friend causes Vinnie Briggs' Sicilian vacation to fall apart even before he checks into his hotel. One friend asks for a "simple" favor, the other dies. Vinnie knows it's a bad idea to get involved, yet he can't refuse. He's asked to link the Brooklyn mob to human trafficking in Sicilian refugee camps. The favor brings complications. The body count grows.

Private investigator Vinnie Briggs knows three things about his client Gunter Hoffman: he's built like a superhero yet clings to a warped self-image of being puny, but despite his timid nature he's more than capable of extreme violence. Gunter witnesses a murder that entangles him in a terrorist plot. Vinnie and co-investigator Rita Light must prove Gunter's innocence by any means: illegal, lying, and sex, to uncover the terrorists and save Gunter - and puts innocent lives at risk.

Discover the surprising literary and poetic history of the RMS Titanic! Imagine getting the inside, behind the scenes story of the Titanic tragedy written by those who did not survive - but whose poetry and short accounts of the moments leading up to the Titanic sinking did. The World Codex Planet Poetry publication encapsulates a snapshot of the era shortly after the turn of the 20th century and is a gem of historical maritime poetry.

Book two in the Sentience trilogy: Interstellar civil war rages. An incredibly powerful sentient computer chafes at the limitations of being confined inside hardware and plots to rectify that situation. Predatory feline aliens launch humanity's greatest nightmare: alien invasion.